Spaniard Justo Gallego Martinez (1925–2021) spent his entire life building a cathedral and he did it on his own. But this enigmatic man—who gained renown as “God’s crazy bricklayer”—from Mejorada del Campo, a small town close to Madrid, was not a lofty architect. Rather, Don Justo (his honorific name) was raised in a humble, devout…

PARIS—The reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is going fast enough to allow its reopening to visitors and faithful at the end of 2024, less than six years after a fire ravaged its roof, French officials said Monday. The cathedral’s iconic spire, which collapsed in the blaze, will gradually start reappearing above the monument…

Just minutes before the start of early morning Sunday Mass on Oct.10, a lone vandal—believed to be a woman—attacked the 125-year-old Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver, Colorado, spraying it with offensive graffiti. Written in bright-red spray paint, the messages read: “Satan Lives Here,” “Jesus Was Here,” “KKK,” “Illuminati,” and “White Supremacists.” The…

Churchgoers heading to morning Mass on Oct. 10 were shocked to find the 125-year-old Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Denver spray-painted with offensive red graffiti. Written in bright-red spray paint, the messages read: “Satan Lives Here,” “Jesus Was Here,” “KKK,” “Illuminati,” and “White Supremacists.” The vandal also painted swastikas on the gilded front…

PARIS–Work to shore up the Notre-Dame de Paris has been finished, allowing restoration to start at the cathedral two years after a fire destroyed the attic and sent its spire crashing through the vaults below, officials said on Saturday. Soon after the April 2019 blaze, President Emmanuel Macron said the cathedral—which dates back to the…

A stunning art installation made up of 15,000 paper doves has been put up at Liverpool Cathedral. The beautiful, intricate works of art are suspended on ribbons from the ceiling of the grand cathedral. Each piece of paper contains a message of peace, hope, and love written by local school children and community groups invited to…